Abstract: Recently, with the development of the medical technique includes surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and molecular targeted therapy, multi-subject combined modality therapy for esophageal carcinoma has been become a tendency instead of surgery alone. Any single treatment is hard to improve the curative effect of treatment for esophageal carcinoma. Systemic individual comprehensive therapy for the different patients with esophageal carcinoma is likely to reduce recurrence rate, improve survival rates as well as to improve the quality of life.

Key words: Esophageal neoplasms, Combined modality therapy